Harpooned - 2009 update now available!

Harpooned has been updated with lots of new features and is now available for the Mac as well as Windows.

View the trailer:

Harpooned 2009 update from Conor O’Kane on Vimeo.

Read more for the complete press release…

Harpooned 2009 update press release.

Harpooned - the world’s premiere Cetacean Research Simulator returns in 2009 with new features and is now playable on Macs as well as Windows.

New features include:

Capture protesters ability - Tired of protesters getting in your way? Don’t harpoon them, kidnap them! Simply press the ‘C’ key to capture protesters that get too close to your research vessel.

Online leaderboards - Compete for the rank of top scientist with other players from all over the world.

Download the game, and view the updated trailer and screenshots at http://harpooned.org

Press for Harpooned:

“This is the coolest protest ever. Besides getting the message across, it’s actually a fun game”.

- Attack of the show, G4TV

“This is pretty much how the Japanese government officially justifies sending out a fleet every year to explode a bunch of whales: They paint “Research” on the side of the ships. All that science just happens to make for good eating. This is actually the best possible kind of “activist” game: one that succeeds not despite of its message but because of it.”

- Games for Windows magazine

“[Harpooned] tasks players with gunning down defenseless whales in Antarctica, transforming them into dog food and whaleburgers as you go. While it’s both gross and sad, O’Kane said he wanted to use satire to illuminate a real-world problem – the mass slaughter of whales by the Japanese under the guise of “research.”

- MSNBC’s Citizen Gamer

Media links:

Screenshots: http://harpooned.org/?page_id=4

Article about the making of harpooned: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17718

YouTube Harpooned 2009 trailer embed code:

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High quality Vimeo Harpooned 2009 trailer embed code:

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